How Do I Spell #SQLFamily? #SQLNomz Of Course It’s time for Meme Monday again, and this month’s theme is #SQLFamily. One of the overwhelming themes of this year’s SQL PASS Summit was community. And that’s what most people mean when they talk about SQL family. When you talk about family, scope is important. There are multiple levels of any family, SQL or otherwise. Immediate family … extended family … distant family … your third cousin on your mother’s side twice

Meme Monday: SQL Horoscope: Finding Your Chinese Zodiac It’s time for July’s Meme Monday post, and this month’s topic is SQL Horoscopes. I read Jen McCown’s post, Meme Monday SQLstrology – Table Valued Zodiac Function, and it inspired me to write a simple function for finding the Chinese Zodiac animal for any given year. There are 12 Chinese Zodiac characters. I took the most recent year for each character and figured out the modulo for each animal. From there, it’s

Meme Monday: Dumb Questions Today is Meme Monday, and I’ve decided to join in on this particular topic. Thomas LaRock (blog|@SQLRockStar) has given us the topic of “Dumb Questions” for today. No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do. ~ Mr. Miyagi Okay, some of you may say this is a cop-out, but it’s how I truly feel. Like the students in Mr. Miyagi’s statement above, there are no bad questions, only bad answers and